Blake Martinez
Work Experience
Software Engineer
Aug 2023 - Present
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Test Tools Team
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Full-Stack Development on CI/CD Testing Page
Software Engineer Intern
San Francisco, CA
May 2022 - Aug 2022
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Shopping Discovery: Joined the Shopping Discovery/Recommendations Team where I worked on Your Shop, the home of Pinterest’s shopping experience.
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Backend Development: Built a completely new and exciting taste-driven shopping recommendation module on the Your Shop feed utilizing user signals, RPC’s and other dependencies.
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End-to-End Functionality: In order to confirm the functionality of the recommendation module, collaboration was executed with Client-side/API support to establish back-end and front-end compatibility.
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Data Analysis: Built multiple queries in order to share analysis of different statistics that were related to the recommendation module.
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Agile Development: Maintained a strict sprint planning and development schedule while tracking tasks/issues.
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Cross Functional Work: The recommendation module built had dependencies that scaled across multiple different teams, therefore I communicated well and managed discussions across various cross functional teams in order to maintain efficient workflow.
- Skills: Java | SQL | Python | End to End Delivery | End-to-end Testing | Recommender Systems
Education
Texas A&M University
Aug. 2019 - Dec 2022
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BS in Computer Science
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Minor in Cybersecurity
Programming Skills
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Languages: Java, C++, Python, Scala, JavaScript, SQL, HTML/CSS, Git
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Technologies: React, Node.js, Django, Flask
Projects
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PEAP: (WIP) Passion project/application where users can login to their Spotify and see their listening statistics. Not only this, but create custom playlists using different artists/songs to base the playlists on.
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readME: Website I made to track my reading progress for the year + my ratings :)
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Personal Discord Bot: Utilizing Discord API, built a functional Discord Bot that was tailored to complete a wide variety of tasks such as changing music in a voice channel or writing messages to different servers on the Discord Application.
Involvement
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Aggie Coding Club: Furthering knowledge of software development in workshops & participating in club projects.
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Cybersecurity Club: Learning more about the field of Cybersecurity by participating in events such as CTF’s (Interactive event to find ”secret” vulnerabilities).
Honors
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Deans Honor Roll: Texas A&M Engineering award for Outstanding Academic Achievement.
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National Hispanic Scholar: College Board National Hispanic Recognition Program 4-year Academic Scholarship.
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Aggie Nerds FEA: Academic Scholarship awarded by the Texas A&M Foundation.